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The Turtle Run

The Turtle Run
  • Author(s): Marie Evelyn
  • Location(s): Barbados
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

She went in search of the past and found her own future. Becky has lost her job and her direction in life so is thrilled when she gets the chance to go to Barbados and research the fate of...

The Year I Flew Away

The Year I Flew Away
  • Author(s): Marie Arnold
  • Location(s): Haiti, Brooklyn
  • Genre(s): Children, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1985

In this magical middle-grade novel, ten-year-old Gabrielle finds out that America isn’t the perfect place she imagined when she moves from Haiti to Brooklyn. With the help of a clever witch, Gabrielle becomes the perfect American — but will...

This One Sky Day

This One Sky Day
  • Author(s): Leone Ross
  • Location(s): Caribbean
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Dawn breaks across the archipelago of Popisho. The world is stirring awake again, each resident with their own list of things to do: A wedding feast to conjure and cook An infidelity to investigate A lost soul to set...

This Weekend Doesn’t End Well for Anyone

This Weekend Doesn’t End Well for Anyone
  • Author(s): Catherine Mack
  • Location(s): The Bahamas
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, Humour, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Vacation Mysteries series 3 A luxury hotel in the Bahamas. A world-renowned writers’ conference. A killer on the loose . . . Eleanor Dash can never catch a break, but she finally has the ticket to a relaxing weekend:...

To Carnival!: A Celebration in St Lucia

To Carnival!: A Celebration in St Lucia
  • Author(s): Baptiste Paul, Jana Glatt (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): St Lucia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

When a series of unexpected delays disrupts her journey to the big parade, Melba must adjust both her expectations and her route to the festivities. Who will she meet and what will she learn along the way?

Transfer

Transfer
  • Author(s): Apple Gidley
  • Location(s): US Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1890s - 1917

Transfer traces the lives of those on Anna’s Fancy, the Clausen estate on St Croix, handed down through three generations. Transfer sees Niels Clausen, the illegitimate child of a Danish landowner and his black mistress who both died as...

Travelling LIght

Travelling LIght
  • Author(s): Jilly Chadwick
  • Location(s): Lesser Antilles
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Four women, four very different life changing events that had them heading for Antigua for some much-needed time out. The women have one thing in common: they had to run away far and fast and the dream Antiguan resort...

Treasure Island

Treasure Island
  • Author(s): Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Location(s): Bristol, British Virgin Islands
  • Genre(s): Children, Adventure, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 1700s

When a mysterious sailor dies in sinister circumstances at the Admiral Benbow inn, young Jim Hawkins stumbles across a treasure map among the dead man’s possessions. But Jim soon becomes only too aware that he is not the only...

Tropical Kiss

Tropical Kiss
  • Author(s): Jan Coffey
  • Location(s): Aruba
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Imagine spending your entire summer vacation on the beautiful island of Aruba. Who could ask for anything more? Well, for Morgan Callahan, spending her entire summer in Aruba with the father, she hardly knows, is barely anything to look...

Uncharted

Uncharted
  • Author(s): Janet Howle
  • Location(s): The Bahamas
  • Genre(s): Suspense
  • Era(s): current

Set in the Bahamas on a sailboat, UNCHARTED uses a turbulent period in the Bahamas’ history as the backdrop for a present-day catastrophe. Carter McDowell is a a broken man. Guilt and grief haunt him as he struggles to...

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